Virtualisation is a no longer just terminology. It is a whole new industry borne out of significant technological advances as a result of the ever increasing drive to reduce costs and enhance functionality within a business.
The word Virtual in this concept is exactly what it means. It is the replacement of a physical element of your IT infrastructure by a virtual element. Generally speaking this can relate to computer desktops and servers, memory, storage, software and data.
Virtualisation is most definitely not a one size fits all solution. extech have the skills, knowledge and vendor relationships to be able to help businesses identify any potential areas that would benefit from using virtual services.
Virtualisation can be used in various formats, from partial to full and because there are virtual applications for just about every possible IT function imaginable, we can help you establish the economical and technological advantages of each to your business.
Most businesses will use virtualisation services for one of the following reasons:
Financial – If companies operate a number of servers, virtualisation can save money as it reduces the number of servers that have to be run which means a saving of hardware costs and the amount of energy required to run the hardware.
Reduction in administrative functions – With virtualisation in place, systems administrators would not have to support as many machines or servers.
Better use of IT Hardware – Virtualisation enables higher utilisation rates of hardware because each server supports enough virtual machines to increase the utilisation from the typical 15% to as much as 80%.
To find out if virtualisation could benefit your business then contact extech for more information.
